The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
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When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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